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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 10m

This is like when I got traumatised by All Dogs Go To Heaven all over again. Only I'm old now.

Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 11m

Is it possible to breed horses on a heavenly ranch? Are native heaven-born horses equal to Earth-born horses? And if they can be born, can they die? If a horse dies in heaven, where does it go? Is there another, better heaven where they get ridden less, or by a better class of fascist?

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 11m

What's the theology of horses in heaven? Do they need to accept Jesus Christ as their saviour? Do horses need saviours if they committed no original sin. Did Jesus die for horses too? Is living on a ranch and being ridden by Charlie Kirk paradise for them, or is heaven for him hell for horses?

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3h

Has anyone tried turning American English off and on again?

Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3h

OED says only in the US.

The Oxford English Dictionary pronunciation guide for 'primer'.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, I completely understand and sympathise with why they felt they wanted to do this. I just think if you're going to write in a second language, it's probably a good idea for a native speaker to have a look at it at some point before publication.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 8h

Slogging through an example of that classic genre of academic writing: English-language chapters written and edited entirely by German-speakers who are not quite as fluent and idiomatic as they think they are. In many ways, harder to get through than if they'd just written in German.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 22h

Well that's been a bit of a day.

Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 1d

Spent an hour driving around trying to find somewhere to park yesterday while there were booked but empty spaces in the Faculty car park. The road where I eventually did park, 15 minutes' walk away from work, is going to be closed from next week for the rest of the year. So, new system going well.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2d

Just collected my first new glasses in about 8 years and it's going to take a while to adjust to this new prescription. Everything's just subtly weird, like the world is on a different film stock.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. Didn't enjoy his visit during the summer.

Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2d

They have now suspended the new parking space booking system from tomorrow, when I had a space booked, and not today, when I do not.

Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 4d

First attempt to use the new University of Cambridge car park booking app: I am unable to access the car park booking app.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2d

Brother-in-law the New Zealand cop proudly sending us photos of him in the papers trying to look hard and carrying off protestors from a pro-Palestinian protest. Unsurprisingly, he has nothing but contempt for them. God I loathe this man. Every interaction we have with him, my opinion of him drops.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2d

Go home, MS Word. It's late and you've had a long night.

A MS Word grammar pop-up suggesting changing 'It is' to 'I is'.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2d

There should be some way to make Blender play the theme tune when you slowly rotate it in the viewport.

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that our first seminar of the season takes place tomorrow and is hybrid. Annick Payne will be giving us an Anatolian Hieroglyphic Masterclass!

Zoom registration and more information via this link:

viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/v...

VIEWS Autumn Seminars 2025

We are excited to announce our autumn termcard of hybrid seminars, with three events coming up. The topics include Anatolian Hieroglyphs, Linear A and B, Greek alphabetic education and European and…

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, it's not just that he looks like a grown-up Joe 90; it's that his lower lip somehow looks like a puppet's.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2d

Baby's new exclamation of unhappiness is 'Nging nging!'

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3d

From those pics, Derren Nesbitt, definitely.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3d

You should wear that to chair this term's seminars.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3d

She's back at it again now, slurping on her hands incredibly loudly and pausing to delightedly yell loud nonsense in the cadence of actual speech at the top of her lungs.

Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3d

As soon as the call was over, she stopped shouting and babbling. The conversation was finished: she no longer needed to make herself part of it.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3d

As soon as the call was over, she stopped shouting and babbling. The conversation was finished: she no longer needed to make herself part of it.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3d

We said hello and introduced ourselves, which the baby followed with 2 loud, drawn-out belches before we could clue the photographer in that she was there. The burps continued till I had to take her away to burn off energy on her playmat. Where she yelled happily and loudly for the rest of the call.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3d

Started with the classic massive poonami 6 minutes before the meeting was due to start. Nevertheless, we were on time. However, my wife's webcam wasn't working so the photographer couldn't see us.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 3d

The other day my wife won a free professional family photoshoot. Just now we had a Zoom meeting with the photographer and the baby has really upped her Zoom game:

Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 15d

Baby sat on my lap for much of the VIEWS Zoom meeting today. In the course of this, she filled her nappy twice, was sick once and had five minutes of shouting so I couldn't hear half of what was going on. Classic Zoom attention-seeking.

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